Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.

Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of dynasties, with their appointed seasons, who was before all time, and made the world a body of times; if the rise and the fall of states are not the work of Him, under whose sovereignty the human race once existed without states at all.

It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.